Comment by SOLAR_FIELDS
2 days ago
Is this some sort of a scam? The driver cannot even mark the ride as completed without being in the area right? So they have to drive it anyway. I can’t imagine they would be on the platform for long if this happened on a regular basis. I would say it’s probably an accident but how could this behavior be accidental? Someone might accidentally say that they picked you up, but they couldn’t accidentally then drive an empty car to the destination.
Maybe they picked up the wrong person and neither of them realized?
Entirely possible, people do get into wrong rideshare vehicles. Especially late night after people have been drinking. A decent driver will confirm the name when you’re in a place with a lot of pickups happening but if the language barrier is strong that might not happen.
My experience in DC is GPS can be spotty due to the buildings and the app glitches when it says you are in one spot but you are not there.
Also DC has rules for certain streets on what side of road you are allowed to be picked up on.
Has anybody tried "driving" for one of these companies using GPS spoofing? You could fake the location of your phone. I suppose it'd only work a few times before the number of reports gets you banned, but I wonder whether on a laragr enough (and automated) scale it would be profitable for scammers
I had a driver commit GPS spoofing on me: I was standing outside and there were no car to be seen anywhere even though the app showed the driver was there and had been "driving" to it
I tried to report a security incident to Uber, but not sure what happened. It would likely be easier to complain today, as now all taxis (which Uber technically is in Norway) need to be part of a Taxi dispatch central
I had to go in person to verify my documents to drive for Uber
Given that they track you every inch of your route, it'd be a pain in the butt to attempt to fake it.
I've gotten a refund on food before because my driver picked up my food and then went spend a half hour in a gas station before returning to their route even though my home was 2 minutes away.
>Given that they track you every inch of your route, it'd be a pain in the butt to attempt to fake it.
Pain for a single app developer when no such app exists, but a spoofing app will dutifully draw anyone any number and length of travel.